【英文原著类】ban and arriere ban(班和阿利埃尔·班).pdf

Ban and Arriere Ban
Ban and Arriere Ban
A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
Andrew Lang
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Ban and Arriere Ban
A SCOT TO JEANNE D'ARC
Dark Lily without blame, Not upon us the shame, Whose sires were to
the Auld Alliance true, They, by the Maiden's side, Victorious fought and
died, One stood by thee that fiery torment through, Till the White Dove
from thy pure lips had passed, And thou wert with thine own St. Catherine
at the last.
Once only didst thou see In artist's imagery, Thine own face painted,
and that precious thing Was in an Archer's hand From the leal Northern
land. Alas, what price would not thy people bring To win that portrait of
the ruinous Gulf of devouring years that hide the Maid from us!
Born of a lowly line, Noteless as once was thine, One of that name I
would were kin to me, Who, in the Scottish Guard Won this for his reward,
To fight for France, and memory of thee: Not upon us, dark Lily without
blame, Not on the North may fall the shadow of that shame.
On France and England both The shame of broken troth, Of coward
hate and treason black must be; If England slew thee, France Sent not one
word, one lance, One coin to rescue or to ransom thee. And still thy
Church unto the Maid denies The halo and the palms, the Beatific prize.
But yet thy people calls Within the rescued walls Of Orleans; and
makes its prayer to thee; What though the Church have chidden These
orisons forbidden, Yet art thou with this earth's immortal Three, With him
in Athens that of hemlock died, And with thy Master dear whom the world
crucified.
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Ban and Arriere Ban
HOW THEY HELD THE BASS
FOR KING JAMES--1691-1693
[Time of Narrating--1743]
Ye hae heard Whigs crack o' the Saints in the Bass, my faith, a
gruesome tale; How the Remnant paid at a tippeny rate, for a quart o'
ha'penny ale! But I'll tell ye anither tale o' the Bass, that'll hearten ye up to
hear, Sae I pledge ye to Middleton first in a glass, and a health to the
Young Chevali